DOTLAN EveMaps

u'\u201cA Sanskrit word appeared in the paragraph: ANTEVASIN. It means, \u2018one who lives at the border.\u2019 In ancient times, this was a literal description. It indicated a person who had left the bustling center of worldly life to go live at the edge of the forest where the spiritual masters dwelled. The antevasin was not of the villager\u2019s anymore-not a householder with a conventional life. But neither was he yet a transcendent-not one of those sages who live deep in the unexplored woods, fully realized. The antevasin was an in-betweener. He was a border-dweller. He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.\u201d

\u2014Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love'